Tilghman H. Cunningham

Tilghman H. Cunningham, of Company K, was First Fife Major. And he was a good one. The boys called him the "boss whistler," and he was. He could rattle the music out with more noise and less effort than any Fifer in the Brigade, and he knew his business and did it. He was mustered out on December 17, 1864.

Although not in the ranks with a musket, he was faithful in his duties and thoroughly subordinate to those above him, and the writer of this has no hesitation in saying that he was the very man for the place.

SOURCE: William W. Belknap, History of the Fifteenth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 48